On the eve of the vote in the West Virginia Senate on whether to grant broad religious and philosophical exemptions for the state’s school-age mandatory immunization program, two Republican state ...

A proposal in the state budget calls for Virginia Commonwealth University to relinquish control of a historic Black church in ...

Alfred Street Baptist Church announced it would be ending its annual Christmas performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts due to new leadership by the Trump administration.

On a snowy prairie in Minnesota stands a monastery like no other. A concrete trapezoid banner encasing a bell tower looms ...

On a snowy prairie in Minnesota stands a monastery like no other. For half a century, the existence of this modernist ...

The church’s minister, Fred Phelps, began his travelling crusade eight years ago to change homosexuality laws in the United States after lawsuits and lobbying efforts failed. The Phelps family began ...

ROME (AP) — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican: Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Isaac McKneely scored 22 points and reserve Anthony Robinson scored 15 points and Virginia held off Virginia Tech 73-70 on Saturday. Dai Dai Ames added 11 points for ...

The stunning news came in a terse statement from the Russian penitentiary service a year ago: Opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in the Arctic Circle penal colony.

MINNESOTA, USA — Modified Arctic high pressure lingers overhead the rest of the week. This means a mostly clear sky and relatively quiet weather. With a clear sky and light wind, temps tonight ...

A Montana judge on Wednesday struck down a state law defining sex in binary terms, finding that the law violated the Montana Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and privacy. Judge Leslie ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...